Riding the Train

When I was about 7 years old, my mother brought me to Chicago from our post-war suburb of McHenry. What an adventure! Though my father rode the train every day to his job so that my mother had use of our family’s one car, this was my first train trip. I remember the gentle rolling [...]

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Spontaneous Human Connection

How many people cross our paths each day? Dozens as we drop children off at school. For most of us, dozens of human interactions occur during our work days through email, physical proximity to co-workers, telephone, mail, etc. In our personal lives we pass people on sidewalks, in our cars, in shopping aisles; [...]

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